G2 Vendor Directory

CARTO vs. ArcGIS Pro

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCARTO

by CartoDB

ArcGIS Pro

by Esri

Overall rating4.54.3
Review count78190
Ease of use8.97.9
Ease of setup9.38.3
Quality of support9.28.4
Meets requirements8.88.6
NPS70.312548.554913
Small Business47.4%25.5%
Mid-Market21.8%37.8%
Enterprise30.8%36.7%
Total page views576631
Total LLM citations6,3612,598

CARTO

CARTO is the leading Agentic GIS platform. Unlike other GIS systems, CARTO removes data fragmentation and technical bottlenecks by letting you build AI Agents, geospatial workflows, and interactive maps directly inside your cloud data warehouse or lakehouse. With CARTO for Agents, those same capabilities extend into the agentic platforms your teams already use, so spatial analysis and reports run at scale without manual effort.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Map Creation
  • 3D Visualization
  • Data Visualization
  • Visualization
  • Data Management

ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Pro is Esri’s powerful, single desktop GIS application. Technologically ahead of everything else on the market, ArcGIS Pro supports data visualization, advanced analysis and authoritative data maintenance in both 2D and 3D. ArcGIS Pro is tightly coupled with the ArcGIS platform supporting data sharing across ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise through Web GIS.

Pros

  • User-Friendly
  • Tool Variety
  • Powerful Tools
  • 3D Visualization
  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface